annual Census Bureau information on 116 pulp and paper mills’ vintage, technology, productivity, and pollution abatement … operating costs for 1979-1990. We find a significant negative relationship between pollution abatement costs and productivity … deviation increase in abatement costs is predicted to reduce productivity by 5.4 percent. Older plants appear to have lower …

, exports, and productivity. However, we do not find any evidence that EPMs performed any better than otherwise similar plants …

of these effects on the productivity of different territories. In this work, we show human capital effects on Andalusia … productivity, related to the rest of Spain. Differences observed depend on their different endowments and also of this factor …

This paper studies how firms contribute to the productivity growth of an industry over their lifecycle. We present a … decomposition method that allows us to condition the components of productivity growth on the age of production units. We find … effect is tightly related to the negative initial productivity effect of entry. We also find some evidence that productivity …

This article discusses the key developments in the agricultural sector in India including productivity gains and …

recession Estonia’s gap in income and productivity levels compared with the EU average was still around 30% and as the country … closing the productivity gap in the manufacturing-for-export sector compared with other transition countries would serve as a …

factor productivity (TPF) as growth enhancing factor in different phases of their economic development and an econometric …

John Van Reenen sketches the evolution of CEP research on the drivers of productivity growth - and its impact on …